Waynesville is a somewhat small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 5,493 people and two associated neighborhoods, Waynesville is the 128th largest community in Missouri. Much of the housing stock in Waynesville was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Waynesville economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Waynesville, where the median household income is $75,179.00.Waynesville is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Waynesville is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Waynesville who work in office and administrative support (20.20%), computer science and math (16.43%), and healthcare (11.17%). Waynesville is home to a number of people employed in the armed forces. When you visit or walk around Waynesville, some of the people you will bump into will be military people In and out of uniform, jogging, shopping and generally out and about town. Also of interest is that Waynesville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 8.54% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. Being a small city, Waynesville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The education level of Waynesville citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 36.61% of adults in Waynesville have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree. The per capita income in Waynesville in 2022 was $34,992, which is wealthy relative to Missouri, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $139,968 for a family of four. However, Waynesville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Waynesville is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Waynesville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Waynesville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Waynesville include German, Italian, English, Irish, and Dutch. The most common language spoken in Waynesville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Greek.
